Contemporary humans have become pathological music junkies reduced to
searching obsessively for the ultimate 'Ode to Joy' cell-phone ring.

last.fm doesn't have a clip of Endangered Species but it does have an "artists like Alvin Curran station" including John Chowning, Maryanne Amacher, Richard Maxfield, and Luc Ferrari. And is Alvarez right that "music is free now?"